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HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 9/4/07

JeanC, HBO's Witch With A Gun, offers a YouTube video reminder, plus commentary, of the big storm that blew in Friday.

*Road King Ramblings drove 2400 to participate in his first and mebbe last Stugis motorcycle rally and now has penned his long-awaited report of the event (w/PG-13 photos) here.

*OrangeTV is going through a change of sorts -- breaking out his SR published works onto a new site called Get Out North Idaho here and continuing his personal Making Flippy Floppy blog with some new MySpace videos including a new one dubbed, "Hagadonia," here.

*Slight Detour admits that Labor Day afternoon before she retired from teaching was one of the worst days of the year for her b/c she never thought she was ready for the next 36 weeks here.

*Bayview Herb and the rest of Bayview are wondering if it's time to incorporate the viewtiful little community on the southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille here and here.

*Sparky Notes has been doing a jig after several recent job offers and several months of temp jobs and soft offers, as she prepares for the next phase of her life here.

*From A Simple Mind never contacted U.S. Sen. Larry Craig to help her with a problem. She doesn't know much about him. But she's shocked how quickly his party threw him under the bus here.

Blog Numbers (for Aug. 26-Sept. 1): record page-views of 67,348, record unique views of 38,493, August total of 198,328 (compared to 133,392PVs in August 2006); year-to-date: 1,425,914PVs (compared to 755,000 through August last year).

Meanwhile, Silver Valley Girl's 12-year-old continues a family tradition here, As The Lake Churns helps celebrate Priest Lake's largest gin-fizz party here, Mrs. Mac Energetic has a new mantra to say while she tries to get a grip here, Tumblewords presents "Grandparents" here, This Is Growing Up picks a peck of peppers here, Rants, Raves & Random Thoughts enjoyed a record blog month in August here, Plaid Toaster is enjoying the freedom that school brings here, Granati gives thumbs up to St. Maries fireworks display here, CastMD contends Sen. Craig could be a spokesman for a medical malady here, BrodH20 sez toilet water suits her cat fine here, Arch Druid breaks down news and comments here, Alotta Brunk Around Here keeps time while waiting for medical results here, and A Butterfly Moment gets ready for school here.



Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.